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She’s a woman, not only when she’s powdered and wearing lace and ribbons, just like a man doesn’t stop being a man when he learns to cook, mend, sweep and sew.

— Luisa Capetillo A Nation of Women (1911)

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It is time that "equality" stop being a vain phrase, and that the rights of both men and women be equal.

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I cannot explain why a man always feels he has rights over a woman.

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The current social system, with all its errors, is sustained by the ignorance and slavery of women.

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Education is the mother of freedom; science is her eldest daughter; and her sisters, tolerance and discretion, with rights and responsibilities.

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Let us study and prepare our generation for the future struggles, which lie ahead.

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